Anti-Bush Protesters Arrested Near UN

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Source: Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- About a dozen anti-war protesters were arrested Tuesday morning during a peaceful demonstration of President Bush's speech before the U.N. General Assembly.

The arrestees were among about 400 protesters opposing the Bush Administration's war in Iraq, and its incarceration in Guantanamo Bay of more than 300 men on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida or the Taliban. Many in the crowd wore orange jumpsuits in solidarity with the Guantanamo detainees.

The arrested demonstrators were taken into custody by police after kneeling on the sidewalk in an act of civil disobedience at the rally near the United Nations. One of them, 58-year-old Bill Ofenloch said they were trying to serve an "arrest warrant" on Bush for "high crimes against humanity."

Members of the anti-war group Code Pink performed a bit of street theater where a person wearing a Bush mask was arrested.

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[fedupfisherman]

1. Arrest warrant?

Are they crazy??

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Why not? Or has the decider done away with citizens' arrests?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. what rights?

this is the 21 century, remember.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Bet they won't get the play that those protesting Iran's president got.

[monktonman]

4. Now what makes you say that? n/t

[babylonsister]

6. Question: was anyone arrested yesterday near Columbia? nt

[Supersedeas]

7. Lord Pissypants must not see protesters in the street--Free speech zones only

[babylonsister]

8. It also has to do with what people are protesting imho. nt

[robinlynne]

9. Meanwhile the "other" protesters are hailed by the media as patriots...